Handling Fire Data: The FDMS.
Handling Fire Data: The FDMS.
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Babrauskas, V.
Chapter 18;
Heat Release in Fires, Elsevier Applied Science, NY,
Babrauskas, V.; Grayson, S. J., Editor(s)(s), 591-607
pp, 1992.
Keywords:
heat release rate; fire protection engineering; fire
data; computer programs
Abstract:
Prior to the coming of heat release rate tests, most
fire tests had a relatively simple reporting format.
Often, only the value of one particular variable was
reported. It is true that with many of these
traditional tests, the test report may not have been as
simple as just one value being reported. Often, the
test methods prescribed that a number of thermocouple
channels, flame length distances, etc., be monitored and
reported. Such reported data were, in fact, not useful
nor used by the client or by the design professional.
Instead, such ancillary measurements were only needed to
document that the test laboratory carried out the test
properly; if there were no improprieties noted, the
additional information served no purpose.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899